Profile of the Day: John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

Today we remember President John F. Kennedy on what would have been his 98th birthday.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts. The second of nine children born to Joseph “Joe” Kennedy and Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald, John was frequently ill as a child. His older brother, Joe, had been pegged to be the family’s political standard-bearer and was expected by his father to seek the Presidency. After Joe’s death in World War II, those responsibilities fell onto John’s soldiers.

In 1961, John F. Kennedy became the 35th President of the United States. At 43, he was the second youngest President in the country’s history. His presidency is often described as a time of radical change. Sadly, in 1963, he was assassinated while riding in his motorcade in Dallas, Texas.

Today John F. Kennedy is remembered as one of America’s most beloved presidents in history.

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